HLG OFFSITE: BASIC TALKS - Eoghan Ryan
HLG OFFSITE: BASIC TALKS - Eoghan Ryan
BASIC TALKS ~ Eoghan Ryan
12th November 2026
TU Dublin Grangegorman
East Quad Building ~ 12:30 ~ Room EQ-112
Basic Space is delighted to present Eoghan Ryan for our November BASIC TALK - 12.30pm on Thursday the 12th of November 2026, TU Dublin, Grangegorman Campus.
Eoghan Ryan works across moving image, installation, performance, puppetry, text and collage to explore how power circulates socially and through mediated culture, and how working from within existing systems can create space to question the structures that sustain their authority.
His process involves long periods of editing, documentation and attention to specific people, sites, objects or songs, shaping these encounters into fable-like reflections on how individual experience and shared narratives become entangled within broader institutional environments, ranging from states of being and nation-states to the cultivation of provisional cultures, in art as in bacteria. He is currently interested in how histories of community action intersect with faith, and in the contradictions that emerge when movements grounded in pacifism and social justice come into alignment with compromised moral, political or religious positions.
Selected exhibitions and performances include Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (UK); Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (NL); De Appel (NL); EVA International 2025 (IRE); IMMA (IRE); Ilmin Museum of Art (KR); Viewmaster Projects (NL); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT); Haus für Medienkunst (DE); Centrale Fies (IT); Busan Biennale 2022 (KR); Kunstverein Freiburg (DE); South London Gallery (UK); and Serralves Museum (PT). Selected screenings include BFMAF 2026 (UK); Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2026 (DE); BFI Film Festival and ICA London (UK); IFFR (NL); and IFI, Dublin (IRE).
He completed an MFA at Goldsmiths (2013), attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2019–21), and participated in VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images (2021). He received the Stiftung Niedersachsen Grant for Media Art (2024), took part in the Dwell Here residency at IMMA (2025), and currently holds a Project Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
BASIC TALKS is a series of informal talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with the Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is an open platform for lectures, workshops, presentations and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers and critics who generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art.
Talks are free, but space limited. Book your tickets here
For the months of October, November and December 2026, Hugh Lane Gallery & Basic Space are delighted to have the Basic Talks programme hosted by the TU Dublin School of Art & Design, Grangegorman, Dublin 7.
This talk is presented as part of the HLG Explore & Learn offsite programmes during the Gallery’s period of temporary closure.
How to get to there:
TU Dublin School of Art and Design is located in the East Quad building, Grangegorman campus, Dublin 7 (D07 XFF2).
The talk will be held in Room EQ-112 located on the first floor.